Baskets, trays, storage, one low stool and a plant stand — woven in cane and rattan, packed from Hong Kong, sold by enquiry rather than by a checkout button.
What the loft holds
Twelve pieces, and that is the whole range. Baskets from a 0.28 kg wall pocket to the 44 × 30 × 24 cm picnic hamper; open-cane trays and a raised fruit bowl on a beech foot ring; a laundry hamper with a cut lid; an underbed box on a timber base; a magazine rack with two cane pockets; a three-leg plant stand; and one low stool with a woven seat.
Nothing upholstered, nothing on castors, no glass tops. When a cane lot finishes, the piece waits for the next weave date instead of being substituted with something close enough.
Cane, not printed plastic
Every piece on this site is natural rattan or cane. PE rattan — extruded polyethylene moulded with a cane print — is cheaper, does not breathe, does not move with the weather, and will never take a patina. We do not sell it and label it natural.
If you need an all-weather set for a covered terrace or a hotel project, we will quote a separate PE line on request and tell you plainly which fibre you are buying, with a different care and warranty regime.
Peel and core
Rattan is a climbing palm, and the stem gives two working materials. The outer skin — the peel — is split into flat strips that take the weave: it turns over a mould without cracking and holds a binder. The inner core is rounder and stiffer, and it carries the structure: rims, legs, steam-bent knees and sleds.
A basket is peel over a core frame. The stool is a core frame with a cane seat woven wet, dried under tension, then wrapped at every joint.
How a piece is made
We buy by lot, sorted for stem diameter and node spacing. Strips are split to width, soaked until the peel turns pliable, then woven over a timber mould. Rims and legs are steamed and bent on a jig. The piece dries in moving air, is checked, then packed.
That is seven to nine days between soak and dispatch for a stool, three for a tray. A die-stamp cannot do this, which is why two baskets from the same lot differ.
Tolerances we work to
A burr or weave irregularity of up to 2 mm is normal hand work, and so is a rim or leg offset of up to 3 mm, a visible node mark, and a colour difference between a base and its wall. None of those is a defect.
A strand lift running more than 30 mm, a popped binder, a split frame, or a stool that fails its load rating is a fault, and we replace it. The returns page lists both sides of that line.
Trays, bread baskets and the fruit bowl get a solvent-free, food-contact-safe hardwax oil, or stay bare where the piece should breathe under a loaf. We do not lacquer a surface that touches food.
Load ratings, stated plainly
The low cane stool is rated to 90 kg static. The plant stand ring carries 8 kg. A basket is not a seat, a tray is not a step, and the picnic hamper is not a footstool. If a piece is going into a hospitality setting, tell us the load and the traffic and we will say whether cane is the right material.
What we do not do
We do not hold stock to talk a price up, we do not drop-ship from a marketplace listing, and we do not pass a factory second off as a sample. Photographs are our own studio work, and when the lot in a photograph is gone the page says so.
We also do not promise a colour match to a screen. Rattan goes from honey to straw as it dries and ages; that is the fibre, not a coating.
Service, in numbers
Enquiries are answered within one working day, Monday to Friday, Hong Kong time. Ready pieces dispatch in three working days from the confirmation. Goods travel in kraft, corner-protected, in a rigid carton. Returns run 14 days from delivery, and the full procedure is on the returns page.
Damage in transit is our problem, not yours — photograph the carton the day it lands and we replace the piece.